Zooplankton square meter count data collected in the 1-m2 MOCNESS during NOAA Ship Albatross IV, R/V Endeavor and R/V Oceanus broadscale cruises in the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank from 1995-1999 and processed at GSO/URI (GB project) (NCEI Accession 0277353)

This dataset contains biological and survey - biological data collected on R/V Albatross IV, R/V Endeavor, and R/V Oceanus during cruises AL9505, AL9506, AL9508, AL9513, AL9605, AL9607, AL9612, AL9701, AL9705, AL9707, AL9801, AL9806, AL9808, AL9901, AL9904, AL9906, EN259, EN261, EN262, EN263, EN264, EN265, EN266, EN267I, EN267II, EN274, EN276, EN278, EN282, EN319, EN320, EN322, OC275, OC298, OC300, OC302, OC317, OC319, OC322, OC336, and OC341 in the North Atlantic Ocean from 1995-01-10 to 1999-06-14. These data include depth begin, depth end, stage, taxon, and taxon_code. The instruments used to collect these data include MOCNESS1. These data were collected by Dr Edward Durbin and Ms Maria C Casas of University of Rhode Island as part of the "U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank (GB)" project and "U.S. GLOBal ocean ECosystems dynamics (U.S. GLOBEC)" program. The Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO) submitted these data to NCEI on 2023-01-23.

The following is the text of the dataset description provided by BCO-DMO:

Zooplankton meter2 count from GSO/URI - 1m2 MOCNESS nets only

Dataset Description:
Zooplankton Meter 2 count from GSO/URI - 1 m 2 MOCNESS nets only
The Zooplankton Meter 2 Database for the Georges Bank GLOBEC project was located in the laboratory of Ted Durbin at the Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island. It was accessed via the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data management system using SQLPlus network access to the data base management system at URI. Data were cached and are served from the local computer.

A description of the original URI database is available online and includes the design and variable definitions. A version of this document is shown .

Note: Our program's requires that any person making substantial use of a dataset must communicate with the investigators who acquired the data prior to publication and anticipate that the data collectors will be co-authors of published results.

The following documentation applies to the data found locally on the WHOI GLOBEC Data Server:
The data is served as a hierarchy. The least changing variables are in higher order levels (e.g., cruise id, year, month, etc.), while variables that change the most are in the lower order levels (e.g., time of collection, net number, taxon collected, etc.) There are six levels within the data; variable names and descriptions are given in the metadata.

Most column variable names and instrument names were taken from the U.S. GLOBEC Georges Bank data thesaurus; those that were not follow the GLOBEC data protocols. The taxonomic code variable (taxon_code) is from the National Oceanographic Data Center's Taxonomic List, version 8. Taxonomic information is built into these ten-digit codes as they reflect the systematic nomenclature.

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